Example sentences of "england as a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming to England as a political refugee , he had originally worked for Thomas Gray , the poet , who , as Professor of History , was responsible for modern languages in the University . |
| 2 | Another notable Catholic , Peter Philips ( c. 1560–1628 ) , left England as a young man . |
| 3 | Flushed with success after his appearance on the Indie panel at the recent CMJ seminar in New York , new skid on the block SHITMAN could soon be coming to England as a new face on yoof TV . |
| 4 | Overall , in the 1970s the main areas of rapid population growth tended to lie just beyond the traditional suburban counties : in southern England as a broad arc to the north of the Home Counties from Norfolk to Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire . |
| 5 | On the other hand , anti-papalism and anti-Catholicism had struck deep roots within Elizabethan society , and when England was threatened by Spain in the late 1580s the war that followed was viewed by many in England as a glorious life or death struggle for national and religious survival against the evil forces of the counter-Reformation . |
| 6 | To his credit he , along with most Nonconformists , was among those who insisted that England as a Christian nation had an obligation to rescue fellow Christians from brutal death at the hands of fanatical Mohammedans . |
| 7 | The Minister must recognise that the concept of England as a unitary nation may make much sense in the south of England , but there is a much greater feeling of distance among people in the north . |
| 8 | To the still ardent John Kemp the old Don is a romantic figure , while Don Baltasar for his part dreams of England as a glamorous country , free from the political pressures of his own adopted land . |
| 9 | 127 , Sir Charles Hall V.-C. referred to the jurisdiction over the Inns of the judges of the superior courts of England as a peculiar jurisdiction which has always been recognised . |
| 10 | Clearly , one can not take price movements in southern England as a precise indication of population change even there , let alone over the country as a whole , but it would be extraordinary if variations in population were not an important factor affecting them , even taking into account the vagaries of individual harvests . |
| 11 | While Charles could technically be King and head of the Church of England as a divorced man , it is unlikely . |
| 12 | Lastly , all that Louis IX abandoned in favour of Henry III — his fiefs and domains in Limousin , Quercy , and Périgord ( the so-called ‘ three dioceses ’ ) and all that remained to the Plantagenets of the ancient duchy of Aquitaine — was to be held by the king of England as an hereditary fief . |
| 13 | Shore significantly developed a style of playing by which the trumpet escaped from the restrictions of a purely military style and took its place in England as an orchestral instrument , so giving valuable stimulus to Henry Purcell [ q.v. ] and making it possible for English trumpeters to meet the requirements of the music of G. F. Handel [ q.v . ] . |